Mariah and Nasty Nas, waxing poetic about old school hip-hop? Well, that’s inevitably going to be good, right? Right.

Even though part of me wanted this new single from her album Me. I Am Mariah… The Elusive Chanteuse to be an uptempo roller-rink jam, with Puffy drums and impossible sample clearances, the leisurely depth offered by both Mimi and Nasir on this submerged record are more than suitable.

So. Usually when you DO a song in celebration of the old school, you tend to add an old-school vibe to the melody so that people actually feel like they’ve been thrownback to that era, whichever it is you’re trying to harken to. But oh no, apparently that’s too much work for “the elusive chanteuse”.

And are we still not talking about this long-ass title of Mariah’s new album? Had to go Google wtf a chanteuse was, lol.